Kashmir

Journalist Fahad Shah arrested for uploading “anti-national content on social media”: Police

SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday said it has arrested journalist Fahad Shah, Editor-in-Chief of Srinagar-based magazine, The Kashmir Walla allegedly uploading anti-national content on social media. Police in a statement said it was reliably learnt by Pulwama Police that some Facebook users and portals have been uploading anti-national content including photographs, videos […]

Jammu

AC approves action plans of JPDCL and KPDCL

JAMMU — The Administrative Council (AC), which met here under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, approved the action plans of Jammu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (JPDCL) and Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) under the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS) for 2021-22 to 2024-25. Farooq Khan and Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Advisors to the […]

Kashmir

Authorities disallow prayers at historic Jamia Masjid for 27th consecutive Friday

SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar has expressed deep dismay over continuous closure of Jamia Masjid and house detention of Mirwaiz Mohammad Umar Farooq since August 2019, thus completing two and a half years in house detention. In a statement, Anjuman said that Mirwaiz is forcibly being prevented from fulfilling from his traditional religious […]

Kashmir

Educational institutions likely to re-open for in-person classes from Monday

Zubair-Ul-Islam SRINAGAR — All the educational institutions in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir are likely to re-open for in-person or offline classes from Monday, 7th of February 2022. All the educational institutions including coaching centers, skill training institutions will re-open for all the vaccinated students from Monday, sources said. They said that the […]